„Die Sendung mit der Maus“ is an educational tv show for children. It’s half an hour long (no commercials there) and has informational/science videos (how do you build a bridge for cars? How does a catalytic converter work? How to make a vegan Schnitzel from lupine,…) and the short cartoons. The Maus is on the plane because they followed this exact plane when it was built, same with one ICE. You’re only followed by the Maus when you’re in Cologne (the hometown of the Maus). When you learn German, it’s a rather good show to watch, the language isn’t too difficult and even adults usually learn something new. Edit/added: Oh, and the companies are never allowed to give their name/use it as advertising. And even so companies, that would never allow anyone from the press/a tv channel into their halls, open up their doors when they here „this is ‚Die Sendung mit der Maus‘, we would like to make an episode about whatever you make“. That’s how much this show is loved all over Germany!

@Anthyrion

Ай бұрын

You could probably say, that the Maus is the commercial^^

@jennyh4025

Ай бұрын

@@Anthyrion perfect! 😂

@schwarzerritter5724

Ай бұрын

Best educational show together with Löwenzahn.

@asvagar8163

Ай бұрын

don't forget that the intro is always in two languages, german, and then a foreign one, and yes, there's even an intro where the second language is klingon. and die Maus is also a resident on the ISS

@mindscraper1978

Ай бұрын

The educational is neccessarry by german law, public financed TV channels have to have educational programms. As well as they should be true about news.

A german astronaut took the mouse to space.

@LillyfromCologne

Ай бұрын

Alexander Gerst ;)

@MarioWagner

Ай бұрын

Yeah. That was Alexander Gerst. I watched these episodes with my four year old a few days ago.

@ryanwass

Ай бұрын

I should not be surprised

@timornoscommovet1111

6 күн бұрын

There are even 2 of them. Klaus Dietrich Flade took the Maus to the Mir space station in 1992

The mouse isn't depressed. She just has eyelids, different to many cartoon figures, cause clinking with her eyelids is her trademark 🐭

@christiansonnenberg6306

Ай бұрын

true! Especially because there is no spoken language all of the characters rely heavyly on non-verbal communication.

@anniebe4992

Ай бұрын

true!

When you let your kids watch TV for 30min and afterwards they explain things to you you did not know... . 😂 More than 50 years with the same hosts!!! Thank you Armin and Christoph!!!❤ (Both hosts and even the mouse got the Federal Cross of Merit - the highest German honor by the Federal President.)

@derschmiddie

Ай бұрын

They also used the opportunity to make an episode about how those medals are made. The part about the history of medals like that is kinda tough. They go "Well, if a king didn't have any money or castles to give away he gave out little tin badges of honor and that kinda stuck."

you skip a important part: At the beginning of each program it says “Welcome to the Mouseshow, today with these topics: Whaterver is whaterver, whatever works, etc.” AND THEN THE SCENE REPEATS ITSELF IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE! and then follows the cult sentence "THAT WAS Chinese/Netherlands/Russian/japanese/spanisch/whatever" I thing for us as childeren it starts awesome because you have the pictures and the words in german explaning whats come up in this show and than you have the same in a other language and you where stunning and thinking "what the hell is this?????" and then you hear " This was english! 😂 and so you start the show with this feeling that the world is so big and "to speak" is very different all over the world🥰

@marylamm9050

Ай бұрын

Yes! I loved that part with the other language! I always thought about which language it could be and got a good understanding of the similarities or differences between languages.

@NiceIce75

Ай бұрын

Addition: The German introduction with the topics of the respective program was spoken by the same speaker for almost 50 years until he retired. The repetitions in other languages are always spoken by native speakers.

@frapaview

Ай бұрын

Indeed the repetition of the content in another language is inclusive to those that happen to speak that other language, interesting to listen to the sound of another language and even for parents and elder siblings some fun quiz to guess what language they are listening to as it is only revealed at the end of the intro.

@LythaWausW

Ай бұрын

Sesame Street tried to teach us kids Spanish. I actually remember a few words.

@arschkalt2348

Ай бұрын

@@LythaWausW the funny thing is, in the original version Dora the explorer teaches kids spanish. in the german version it teaches kids english.

You have to watch a full episode to understand. It´s basically a show where basic stuff like basic science, how cars/planes/trains work, how a bakery works... and between all of that you have short funny cartoons. Everything made for kids ofc If you grew up in Germany you´ve watched in in your childhood at some point, that´s why it´s so popular.

@jesskar

Ай бұрын

That might mean copyright problems. Most public channels claim reaction videos to their content. That’s why no German KZreadr reacts to Neo Magazine f.e. Rezo once reacted and the video was taken down.

@jennyh4025

Ай бұрын

@@jesskar but he might still watch a full episode in private (will probably need a VPN for that, but I think it’s worth it).

@HrLBolle

Ай бұрын

and at some point while getting older you'll have transitioned to Löwenzahn

@Wildcard71

Ай бұрын

From my point of view, it survived Sesame Street and Little Sandman.

@m.s.7154

Ай бұрын

I watched it in my childhood and then I watched it with my kid! 😊😊😊

"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is the german answer to the question "How to most effectivly raise engineers"

@piiinkDeluxe

Ай бұрын

Damn, i never thought about it that way

0:50 this voice is childhood

@Alexwahlp

Ай бұрын

shame that he skipped it

@veladarney

Ай бұрын

That's Armin, isn't it?

@ErklaerMirDieWelt

Ай бұрын

​@@veladarneyyes, Armin Maiwald

@Ace-Of-Spades---

Ай бұрын

​@@ErklaerMirDieWelt When he is no longer there at some point, the whole of Germany will mourn. This voice has been part of the childhood for generations.

@alexanderkupke920

Ай бұрын

@@Ace-Of-Spades--- He even won the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the highest honor in Germany, for what Armin, Christoph and the Crew achieved in education and getting people interested in a variety of topics. The mouse turned 50 in 2021 and there are a few people who started watching Die Maus as a child still watch it every sunday today. And while the show had sort of a rough start, it grew in popularity and Armin Maiwald still is the main producer. He and Christoph (the guy in they green sweathshirt you may see) who joined later. Although both would be old enough for retirement by now.

"Die Sendung mit der Maus" and the Team behind it are national treasures. Although i personally as a kid prefered Peter Lustigs "Löwenzahn" as my educational tv show.

@pepperpiet

Ай бұрын

I liked both, willi wills wissen was gold too

@Ace-Of-Spades---

Ай бұрын

I'm so old that I automatically think "Pusteblume". 😁 I was also happy to see it, and since you could learn something from both of them, we were allowed to see both.

@ryanwass

Ай бұрын

I'll have to check it out!

@HrLBolle

Ай бұрын

depends on the age of the ones viewing

@HenningHildebrand

Ай бұрын

@@ryanwass I wouldn't recommend Löwenzahn if you're not fluent German. You won't understand a word :)

Growing up in Denmark just a little north of the border to Germany, German TV was big in my childhood. I was 3 in 1971 when Die Maus began. I guess I will have watched the earliest episodes, probably regularly. I also watched the German edition of Sesame Street, which was more American in style obviously, and iirc also more reading and basic math oriented (ie letters and numbers) with regard to educational content. I could read comics and children's books by the age of 4, and I suspect these programs, as well as the weekly Donald Duck comics magazine, are the biggest contributions to that. As I am 56 now, my guess is that almost any German under the age of 60 will have watched the Mouse at some point, probably regularly for some periods of time. Although I am unsure whether children still watch it as much as when there were only few channels back in the seventies, my guess is children still watch it. Also, for people above the age of 60, many will also have seen it, with their children or grandchildren. So I guess it impossible to be German and _not_ know the Mouse. So no wonder it has become a cultural phenomenon and icon of incredible strength. I watched an episode during the Covid pandemic - they did a scientific experiment/demonstration, to show how efficient masks prevented the spreading of disease. Impeccable science, and very informative. As others have said, you _need_ to watch an entire episode, or even better watch more than one. The reason it is also popular and watched by adults is probably twofold: First, as the information presented is explained thorooughly, but without talking down to children, it is really valuable and educational for curious adults too. I can believe what it says on the WP page, that some of them are used for teaching even at places of higher education, because they are so well-made. Second: I guess there is something to the fairly slow pacing, the wordless and gentle humour of the cartoon interludes, often apropos the preceding educational video, that just makes watching it relaxing and comforting. I guess it could be considered a form of the phenomenon I have heard about on KZread called ASMR content. There are some people who have a voice that just spellbinds you whenever they talk, and Armin Maiwald is definitely one of them. David Attenborough who did so many series on nature and wildlife is probably another famous example I can think of, or maybe Stephen Fry. So you get a warm fuzzy calming relaxing therapeutic session; light, but humourous entertainment; _and_ some interesting education or knowledge. From my childhood I can probably still recall or recognize some episodes if I see them again. I am a 56 years old man, with a white beard; but I have a plush toy Mouse in my bedroom!

@felixb.3420

Ай бұрын

Your comment made me smile and I can resemble that warm feeling. 😊

It is a german thing. When my friend emigrated to the US and was pregnant our present was: we recorded every single mouse episode (first on vhs, than dvd) until both kids are 21 and send them to the US.

@Nintendo_Freak8x

Ай бұрын

Very cool

I grew up with Armin and the Maus. It is fun to watch and you can learn something new. Alexander Gerst got a Astro-Maus with him on the ISS for a hole year and there were extra episodes explaining how rockets and the ISS work.

I watched that as a kid, every week! That was 40 years ago ... Boy, did I love watching Armin and Christoph find out about how stuff works.

@franhunne8929

Ай бұрын

I, too watched it as a kid, but that was 45 years ago. It is around since 1971 - 53 years - but I know I have not watched much TV as a very small child, only Sesame street.

I love watching the "Sendung mit der Maus" with my kid. Because even adults can learn from this. So cool and easy explanations for kids.

Some days ago we watched a clip from "Die Sendung mit der Maus" in our food technology lecture at university. 😅

For sure there are two (of a lot of) things EVERYONE who grow up in Germany over the last decades knows and reacts with a smile: the intro tune and the voice of Armin Maiwald who spoke every episode. He is in such a positive way loved and famous that there are even schools carrying his name.

The Concept og the Mouse Cartoons: The mouse and his friends experience little harmless adventures in their surroundings, solve problems in sometimes fantastically unrealistic and unexpected ways and interact with each other. The focus is often on treating each other fairly. The stories are kept very simple so that they are also suitable for very young children. The character of the mouse is more like a young, responsible adult or parent in opposition the its friends elephant and duck, who are more childish and inexperienced. The Eye Thing: The half-open eyes are the normal state, as in humans. The cartoon character is not supposed to look constantly overexcited like other cartoon characters. This also makes it possible to depict special situations through wide-open eyes without drifting into complete visual exaggeration. The Sendung mit der Maus comics have a deliberately calm and not over-excited style.

@Phorenice

Ай бұрын

Don't forget the iconic sounds of the cartoons. I think every German will recognize the sound of the Mouse's eyes blinking in an instant, let alone the Elephant's trumpet. And I remember a bet on "Wetten dass!..." where the candidate could determine which clip it was by the sounds alone (I don't remember the details, so it might have been just a limited selection instead of all clips, but appartently I was impressed enough that I still remember it roughly 30 years later.)

The mouse is so popular because it combines small cartoon clips with explanatory videos. The explanatory videos are made in such a way that they describe in great detail how, for example, popcorn is made or what a firefighter does, without sounding condescending. In the videos, children are not treated like toddlers but like young adults, making it very easy to understand, and some adults can even learn something from the videos.

@jennyh4025

Ай бұрын

Just some adults? I’m pretty sure most adults can learn something when watching the episodes every Sunday.

What is outstanding of this children’s programme is the accuracy of how they explain and show things to young children. They show how things are made on the spot as well as with little experiments to explain details. And they cover a huge range of topics, including legendary episodes of eg how laws are made or how nuclear power is working, including the concept of chain reactions.

@ursulaposse-kleimann25

Ай бұрын

That was epic! All those mouse traps and pingpong balls!

"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is childhood, its cult, its so perfect. They give you input about everything, how it works, how it is build, mixed with small cartoons. Nothing better to interessting children into the world. The fact, that everyone loves "the mouse" is based on the fact, that we all growed up with it since 1970. its part of our earliest memories and a thing we can present OUR children like our parents to us

@JaneSmith-rx6kx

Ай бұрын

And they explain everything including the Internet and Computers so that even preschoolers understand

@alexanderkupke920

Ай бұрын

@@JaneSmith-rx6kx I remember especially an episode where they explained how mobile phones work. In a way that even chldren understand it. (Being a communications engineer I absolutely loved it)

@CakePrincessCelestia

Ай бұрын

Die Sendung mit der Maus, Löwenzahn and the good old Was ist Was books. Absolutely based childhood.

Of course every real German knows and loves the mouse. Imagine, everybody 60 or younger has grown up watching this show! So its no surprise it has found its way into daily life here.

@frediann3076

Ай бұрын

My parents (both unfortunately already dead) said to each of their 5 children "oh shit, a few more years of Sesame Street." They never complained about the years with "The Mouse

best show ever! Great children‘s songs, clips from Shaun the sheep, and all of the clips explaining how things are made or work in easy terms is simply brilliant. My favorite is still hoe they explained how toothpaste gets its red stripes…!

The little mole or "The Mole" (originally from the Czech Republic) was also very popular, at least in East Germany.

@momokochama1844

Ай бұрын

or Hase und Wolf (Bunny and Wolf) - more or less the russian version of Tom & Jerry

@Roberternst72

Ай бұрын

The Mole was used in segments between the real life videos for Die Maus, too, starting iirc around 1974.

@tarwod1098

Ай бұрын

I always loved the Mole. He was so irresistibly cute ❤

Once they showed how a vehicle for the firebrigade was manufactured. They wanted to put the mouse on the vehicle as well. As there are specific rules about the color scheme the orange mouse was technically forbidden on the car. They needed a special dispensation by the secretary of the interior of the state. Naturally as it is The Mouse, this was granted

Hi Ryan, the show with the mouse is not only popular in Germany, I was born in Austria and grew up there and we also had the show on television, and it was and has always been the best show for children, on the one hand funny and on the other hand immensely informative, as topics for adults were explained in such a way that we children understood them too

I remember watching this programme when I was young [I'm 62 now]. Every time we visited our German relatives [grandma/aunt/uncle] it would be on. Fond memories.

@Herzschreiber

Ай бұрын

Same here. We were ten when the mouse appeared the first time, it was started in 1971! And I used to love it! (Funfact: Since mobile phones exist I've had the intro tune as a ring tone on mine!)

Over the decades, the Sendung mit der Maus has maintained its high-quality style of conveying education in a way that is suitable for children and the simple, non-exaggerated cartoons. It has also survived the change in animation technology without loss and has not suffered a drastic change in style or modernization like the Mainzelmännchen. "Die Sendung mit der Maus" is one of the top classics of German children's television and a hallmark of German television culture.

You wanna know how things were made(cheese, a train, a spring, a screw, milk...) look "Die Sendung mit der Maus" Mostly the education clip begins with "you have asked where comes the milk on the breakfast table" or "you have asked how is a screw made" Armin teach it like a friendly grandpa and Christoph is like a friendly uncle who shows you how to make a paper-boat and let it swim with you. The mouse cartoons are between diffrent other clips. You have to look a full episode. In my childhood I loved "Lach und Sachgeschichten" and as an adult I show it my kids. And as an adult I learn also how things are made, how things work, where they from and so on. If there are more of these tv-shows, the world would be a better place.

I remember growing up in the 90s watching every Sendung mit der Maus I could. Not for the cartoons but on fact for the educational bits. I even went to the mouse exhibit in the late 90s when it was in my hometown (it was a traveling exhibit). I still remember this very foundly. Die Maus is just childhood like Löwenzahn and Sandmännchen. My father still watches it to this day in his 50s.

Thats what we all grow up with in germany! "Die Sendung mit der Maus" and "Löwenzahn" (dandelion) are both shows for Kids, the shows run since the 70s and teach the Children Science and everyday storys, how is this and that build or how does this work... im Born 1980 and i loved both shows

The mouse's explanatory videos even inspire adults. How are everyday things made? For example a knife, scissors or a tool The mouse was even on the ISS. The German astronaut Alexander Gerst had a stuffed mouse toy with him on his ISS mission in space. He explained in a video what it's like in space

we watched with our children almost from the beginning in de early seventies. And still watching every Sunday. We are in our seventies now 🥳 Our eldest granson asked the other day: are you still watching? Yes, every week! (from the Netherlands)

The Show with the Mouse is a children's program that runs on Sunday mornings (so parents can lie down again). She conveys knowledge about the whole world in short films, easy to understand for children and Americans, between the short films there are short cartoons with the mouse (and her buddies (e.g. The Elephant)) to relax.

@winterlinde5395

Ай бұрын

😏

@kerstinohlsen6465

Ай бұрын

For children and Americans.. You made my day. Sorry but a joke.. 😜

@MunichChild

Ай бұрын

For children and Americans 😂😂😂😂 Well, maybe a cliche but are Americans really so well educated? Nevertheless, it´s an amazing show teaching kids and even adults a lot of interesting things ... I love it!

@CakePrincessCelestia

Ай бұрын

@@kerstinohlsen6465 But not easy enough to understand for Russians. Gottem!

We used to have a Dutch version for a few seasons when i was a kid. I watched it a lot and that was 50+ years ago, imagine how engrained it is in Germany if it still runs.

It's a show made for children, but adults watch it as well. There are a few cartoons, of course, but there is also a segment where they go into plants, to manufacturers etc., to show the kids how everyday objects are made: "each show consists of several segments, the Lachgeschichten ("laughing stories") purely to amuse, and the Sachgeschichten ("non-fiction stories"), short educational features on a variety of topics, such as what must be done before a plane can take off, how holes get into Swiss cheese or the stripes into toothpaste." (Wikipedia).

@Holilo7

Ай бұрын

Das war englisch.

@stefankaiser3354

Ай бұрын

​@@Holilo7☝️😄

@PotsdamSenior

Ай бұрын

​@@Holilo7😂 👍

@CakePrincessCelestia

Ай бұрын

@@Holilo7 **chef's kiss**

I like the sad look and the sound of the eyes, and I like that the mouse is sometimes a bit clumsy. Sometimes a bit unlucky, but the mouse always finds solutions. You should watch more mouse cartoons. They are good.

it was weird to hear someone call the maus "he" lol

@LythaWausW

Ай бұрын

It's a boy mouse right? It looks like a boy.

@arschkalt2348

Ай бұрын

@@LythaWausW the Maus has no gender, grammatically in german "maus" is feminine so we do say "she". But that's not implying the mouse's gender at all, it's just a mouse. in that sense.

@LythaWausW

Ай бұрын

@@arschkalt2348 Got it. My husband just explained that the gender is not revealed, but kids growing up with it see the "die" and think of it as a she.

@emmasly123

Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. The mouse has always been "she", obviously because of the grammatical gender. So, "he" sounds weird to me, too.

@frediann3076

Ай бұрын

Grammatically its she, in Realität its they (The mouse has no gender. And elefant or duck neither

It's such a fascinating show about everyday items, and it has this short little cartoons inbetween, that from my youngest daughter to my 90 yo grandmother, everyone watches this show and learns something new every week. my grandmother has never missed an episode from the day it was first broadcasted in 1971.

@CriticalPoliteness

Ай бұрын

I don't know your grandma but I already love her!!!😍

It is a fun mixture of science and entertaining stories. Everybody loves it, because it is also interesting for adults how the coloured stripes get into toothpaste or how paperclips are made. My daughter once had a question and we wrote to the mouse (She is a girl btw). We got a huge envelope back, with posters, stickers, pins and an individual answer. They have a fabulous team working for them and everybody knows the voice of Armin Maiwald. He is a legend!

There are 4 main characters in this tv show The Maus ,the elephant the duck and the best of all you have not seen in this video is Christoph. The guy with the green pullover he is the guy that shows all the cool stuff in real life. This guy is awsome and since i remember he is part of this show and is still today.

the mouse and the elephant are the most known beings for every german child i feel xD its a fantastic show because its a children show with differnt segments, there are always a few clips with the mouse but then there are also little videos where you learn stuff like this so the children watch it for the clips with teh mouse and then they get this information videos too :)

@ladypurple3851

Ай бұрын

And the yellow duck

@NutsInAShell-xt3yd

Ай бұрын

Mainzelmännchen are dead?😮

@jalifritz8033

Ай бұрын

@@NutsInAShell-xt3ydno they are still on tv

I grew up with the Maus and still watch it today from time to time because the videos they show are very educational. It's for kids and adults who want to learn what holds the world together. Also the Maus was in space on the ISS some years ago.

We even watched this show in our high school physics class, because the scientific explanations were still useful to study at a higher level.

@LythaWausW

Ай бұрын

My husband is a physics teacher and has every single episode on his computer. If I have a question about how something works, he can usually pull up a Maus episode.

You don't see the Maus in the educational youtube clips because "Die Sendung mit der Maus" is actually a TV show. The educational clips are the main part of it, the mouse clips and other stuff for children (like the little stories) are between those educational clips. On KZread you see only the clip by itself, without the break-mouse.

Every German at a certain age knows the Maus! 👍

On German tv screens, "Lach- und Sachgeschichten mit der Maus" (short: "Die Maus") predates Sesame Street. "Die Maus" is a programme by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR; the public TV for Northrhine-Westphalia, located on Cologne), whereas Sesame Street was picked up by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (the WDR's northern neighbour, at the time covering Lower Saxony, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein). The concepts and target audiences are similar, with Die Maus covering more complex subjects, but with easier language. Die Maus also pioneered children's tv merchandise in Germany, with hardcover cartoon books released in 1972 by the cartoonist Isolde Schmitt-Menzel according to the catalogue of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Bibliotheque). Sesame Street had Ernie and Bert puppets just a little later, probably in early 1974, iirc. (I'm trying to recollect some very early childhood memories there, so... I might get the details of the chronology wrong...) PS: If you really want to find out everything and more about Die Maus, you might want to go to Cologne, because WDR's premises there are like the Die Maus world capital.

The mouse is a weekly childrens show (since 1971!). Invented by one of my very few personal idols Armin Maiwald. which normally follows the following scheme: Intro Intro in another language (every week another one) First Cartoon (~5min - one epsiode of a season of changing cartoon (e.g. der kleine Maulwurf) Mouse Break (very short funny mouse cartoon (around 30sec)) First Educational clip (~5-7min) Mouse Break Second Educational clip (~5-7min) Mouse Break Second Cartoon / Puppet piece (~5min - during my youth mostly Captain Blaubär) Diclaimer: I'm 35 and this is from memory. And of course there are specials which are a whole episode or even longer one topic. e.g. building a plane or what happens at the airport until the plane leaves on the next flight. But all of them have the very short Mouse Breaks. I still remeber the well know set phrase: "And how this works we will find out after the next mouse (clip)" And this basically started the whole mouse brand.

Although I am Dutch I used to watch” die Sendung met der Maus” as a child. I love it! I am 60 years old but still have good memories about it.

The instantly smiling after watch a short mouse clip for the first time. So nice.

The construction of this airplane was show in the Maus step by step. Therefore this one is special to all the Maus spectators. By the way: the average "child" watching the Maus is 39 years old.

Don't forget the elephant who started as a sidekick of the mouse but now has it's own show "Die Sendung mit dem Elefanten" which is aimed at younger kids (3-6 I'd say). The app of both of them is also pretty cool if you don't want to forbid your child to play with your smartphone but don't want the blinky flashy nonsense ad-filled junk for them either ;)

I think my family watched this, even when all the kids already have been out of school! If I remember correctly the show aires at11:30 on sundays, so it was a standard program for most families after/at breakfast on a sunday. I am pritty sure there aren't that many kids shows with information and entertainment for kids on the same level. I think even as an adult you actually learned something new with every show! (Or at least relearned a lot of things)

I'm not German, but I used to have bedsheets with the Maus on it and i still miss them to this day. I loved that mouse so much.

“Die Maus” has become a cultural asset in Germany. A show made for children that explains the world. The show is based on small cartoons that match the topic of the show and various short videos that explain the topic. These explanatory parts are then made with people who are now just as famous and popular as the mouse. The best example here is Christoph Biemann, who always wears his green sweater in the clips, and the voiceover who explains everything is Armin Maiwald. The first time I worked in the call center, I was in the customer trouble hotline area. If the customers had problems with their internet. In the training, we watched “Die Sendung mit der Maus” on the subject of the Internet. The trainer then went into detail. The mouse did a great job of explaining where the internet comes from and how it gets to our computer. You just learn a lot and it's always exciting. I still enjoy watching it as an adult and my children love the mouse too. Also available as an app for your smartphone. The elephant has now gotten his own show and app, where he and a little rabbit are the main characters. The mouse comes in as a guest character sometimes. It is structured like the mouse but is aimed at very young viewers up to around 5 years old. The mouse can now pick up and explain slightly more complex topics. The elegant is still part of the mouse. The Mouse has also declared war on Ukraine in a child-friendly way. I'm grateful because at first, I didn't know how to explain this to my son in a way that was child-friendly but fair to the seriousness of the topic.

As a child in the 1970s/80s you had two "main children's shows": Sesame Street and the show with the mouse - which is why it is still firmly anchored in this generation today...

@franhunne8929

Ай бұрын

And Löwenzahn!

@gnommg

Ай бұрын

Und hallo spencer.

@silkwesir1444

Ай бұрын

@@gnommg Hallo Spencer is not a kid's show though. Just because it is puppets, doesn't mean it's for kids. Think Muppet Show, as opposed to Sesame Street.

@gnommg

Ай бұрын

@@silkwesir1444 of course its a kids Show. Here is a quote from the Wikipedia entry" In einem Großteil der Folgen wird eine Geschichte aus dem Runddorf erzählt. Diese zeichnen sich durch Humor, aber auch durch für Kinderserien typische pädagogische Inhalte aus (wie z. B. in Folge 3 Mal oben, mal unten). Immer wiederkehrende Elemente sind die Lieder der Quietschbeus, Poldis Fresssucht („Ich will dir fressen!“), Lexis Besserwisserei, Nepomuks Griesgrämigkeit, Kasimirs selbstlose Gutmütigkeit und andere Eigenschaften der Dorfbewohner. Die Hauptfiguren stellen Identifikationsangebote für Zuschauer unterschiedlichen Alters dar."

@erwindermaurer5860

Ай бұрын

@@gnommg Sesamstraße und die Maus sind aber Sendungen mit edukativem Inhalt für Kinder ab drei oder vier, Hallo Spencer oder Ähnliches ist eher Unterhaltung mit moralischen Kern. So wie auch die Rappelkiste oder Bettkantengeschichten. Löwenzahn ist auch erklärend, allerdings eindeutig für ein älteres Publikum. Irgendwo hab ich hier die Muppet Show gelesen - die war eindeutig an ein erwachsenes Publikum gerichtet, was man ja schon an den Gaststars erkennt, denn ob Dolly Parton oder Johnny Cash jetzt unbedingt Stars im Kinderzimmer waren, sei dahingestellt. Es sei denn, die amerikanischen Kids haben damals auf dem Schulweg den "Cocain Blues" oder "Devils right Hand" gepfiffen😆

Fun fact I go to a german high school and we sometimes watch “Die Sendung mit der Maus” as an easy start into a topic

As a child, I used to watch Sendung mit der Maus every Saturday (or was it Sunday?) morning. I always loved the shows so much and learned so much from them! Of course, I also had a cuddly toy of the mouse. I still like to watch the videos on KZread sometimes. 😂 Biene Maja was also one of my favourites. Unbelievable, but true: until 1997, our family only had TV roof antenna reception and seven TV channels (five German and two from the neighboring Netherlands), so no special children's channels and was dependent on the weekend program for children on public television, so I always liked to disappear to the neighbor's children on weekday evenings to watch DuckTales, Darkwing Duck etc. via satellite.

Unrelated to the mouse, I love to see how your background "furniture" and even the painting keeps changing adapting to your kid growing.

Like many others, we'd be watching "Die Sendung mit der Maus" with the whole family EVERY SINGLE Sunday noon (provided we were at home) for ALL of my childhood. Entertainment, education and bonding moments/family activity/tradition. Yep, it's just not possible to be more iconic.

I was super confused when Ryan started talking about "he". Then I realised that since early childhood, I had thought of the mouse as a "she". Talk about unconscious bias 😂

In 1999 the made short videos how an airplane is build first step til it`s finished. Lufthansa is a German company and the plane is really flying. Actually by chance we took a flight from Frankfurt to Oslo in this plane. There is a big mouse at the end of the plane by the exit.

Every Sunday morning, i watched first "Löwenzahn" on ZDF and then "Die Sendung Mit Der Maus" on ARD. Their explanation pieces about industrial processes are so good, that they often are used as introduction to processes even at university level. I remember that we watched a piece on continuous casting at uni.

@agnes1250

Ай бұрын

I'm a home economics instructor and used the film with the glass washing machine in every class. Can't get a better explanation anywhere.

"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is a children TV- Show since 07.03.1971 and is still running and i think you have to take it as a linear TV show to understand it as a working concept. It does not work on KZread and with "Generation KZread" which is bored after 30 seconds and begin to click around like you watching it the first time. See it that way: You are a kid in the 70s to 90s and happy to see the show on saturday morning for 30 Minutes and if it is over you parents shut down the TV and send you outside to play with your friends, or anything else. This program has survived the test of time without any damage to its style, even though children now watch social media on tablets and smartphones all day long.

@JamesDoe67

Ай бұрын

I guess if the wdr wants to stop the show you can't go to cologne the next half years because of protests. And i think after this we just have only ZDF :)

@felixb.3420

Ай бұрын

They also created a good app children can use safely to watch what they like. The Maus is adaptive to modern media and not restricted to linear TV.

@Gaston413

Ай бұрын

@@felixb.3420 Yes, I'll accept that. However, the linear concept also has advantages such as the time limit and also a slight pressure to watch something to the end, which is no longer present with the interaction in the "modern" media world.

@felixb.3420

Ай бұрын

@@Gaston413 I don't doubt that.

The Mouse and my daughter share their birthday. Just 43 years apart 😂. And my daughter is so happy about this fact.

Reacting to the Maus (female) is impossible without watching an episode of it.

@silkwesir1444

Ай бұрын

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One great thing: One episode consist of a bunch of stories and starts with summarizing all the topics: "Today with story x, story y story z..." and than the summery is repeated in another language and ended with that was Polish/English/French and one time even backwards. Happy memories.

Germany and Austria, we here also love the Mouse. There is a spin off called The Show with the Elephant for preschoolers, and it has shorter clips about random topics. Its a show where you don't have a guilty conscience if you let your kids watch it, and honestly, it's not boring to parents as well. I loved one about kids with down syndrome and another one about kids living in Japan and India, my son of course loves the one about building an ICE from scratch... It opened up some great conversations with my kid. Yeah, big fan since my own childhood.

One of the best science segments I watched with my preschooler son in the early 90s was when they explained/demonstrated how a chain reaction works: They set up an 8-foot pit and filled it with old-fashioned spring-operated mousetraps. On each was a ping-pong ball. And then someone threw another ping-pong ball into the pit, and you literally saw that one set off the others one after the other, gaining ever more momentum. Incredibly graphic, and completely understandable. And fun!

In tests, 85% of people, when asked what a mouse is, they say "computer accessory". That is how far we've moved from nature!

@silkwesir1444

Ай бұрын

Do the survey in a zoo instead of on the internet and you'll have the results the other way around easily. Context (and priming) is very important.

If you're wondering about "Die Sendung mit der Maus", what do you say about the children's show "Löwenzahn" and by that I mean the old episodes with "Peter Lustig"? Oh Peter, he will be missed and never forgotten. Rest in peace Peter. Greetings from Saxony in Germany 😸

My favourite character from the Mouse is "Käpt'n Blaubär (it translates to Captain Bluebear). He's a bear and a retired sailor who lives in a shipwreck on a cliff with his three grandchildren and his First Mate Hein Blöd (you could translate it with Hank Stupid) and tells them stories of his past adventures which are usually made up or exaggerated but have a grain of truth in them

The mouse is a national treasure, and if you ever want to set foot onto the European continent and make it back in one piece, you better say nothing negative about our mouse.

Microwaves have a stigma of being "cheap" or "low effort" cooking tools. Most (especially older) people used to stay away from them to keep their pride, but that beomes less common nowadays. I tried to gift my grandmother a microwave, but she denies it in her house.

@silkwesir1444

Ай бұрын

Some of those clips are also from times where there were no microwaves (at least not in the home, restaurants and hospitals and so on are a different story, of course)...

@silkwesir1444

Ай бұрын

Oh and also, people who won't even allow it in their house, it's not about pride usually, but more about paranoia. You know, those people with irrational fears about the microwave oven. For some reason, in Germany this segment was particularly strong. I once heard why, someone was at fault with some kind of campaign, but I don't remember the specifics.

Die sendung mit der Maus (tv program with that mouse) is what Sesame street with Kermit the Frog is for the USA. Both are long running educational children shows and have become iconic programs several generations grew up with.

Well, Ryan, you should watch several of the shows available with the eyes and the mindset of a 5 to 10 year old child -- with regard to many of the comments listed here. Yes, there are references to other TV shows aimed at the same demographic, but seeing what this one channel produced/produces to educate children in a playful mode is worth it. And also Yes, the educational spots are interesting for grown-ups, too. These show information that is often not obvious about e.g., production of everyday goods. And then, make another reaction video to that.

Oh how nice, the show with the mouse together with the Sesame Street brings back memories of my childhood. I was born in 1970. On Friday evenings NDR always showed Dick and Doof (Thick and Stupid) with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy , which our family always watched on TV. We always had to laugh of those nonsense so much.

Kids have questions - all the time. How does this or that function? Where do this or that go after it is used? Who is it that…? With the Sendung mit der Maus Kids can ask their questions to the team (they often get letters from kids an then make a short video to answer Said questions.). In between this educational videos there are short animations with the Maus, the blue elephant and the duck. The whole show is about 30 min and often you get new insights on how things work or are, even as an adult.

Yes, my childhood is calling... 😄I watched "The Show with the Mouse" nearly every Sunday. And afterwards "The Muppet Show"😃followed by... our family lunch.🙃

The Maus concept is a bit difficult to explain. The show basically consists of explanatory topics about how things work or how they are made. The characters of mouse and elephant can be understood as kind of "hosts" only appearing in short (few seconds), funny cartoons at the beginning or end of the show. Those clips mostly had nothing to do with the topic, but kept the kids watching. The Maus phenomenon is best compared to the "Mainzelmännchen" which were used to separate advertising spots from another. Both existed unchanged for decades, even when Germany only had 3 TV channels, which makes them a common childhood memory for entire generations.

I'm learning so much about Die Maus since you posted this. That image of him/her/they on the plane was due to an educational video they made about Lufthansa plane construction/repair. Or was it construction, and then repair, a few years later? : ) Sesame Street and Mr Rogers were great, but The Mouse is sacred.

It is less "science" and more educational. Like explaining how something is created/produced, how food gets from the farm to the table and such. The eyes - IMHO - are meant to relay the gentle and relaxed nature of the mouse. The show is usually very soothing and relaxed, not hyped or aggressive.

@silviahannak3213

Ай бұрын

Yeah..for Americans even the simple things...they call it Science. Ridiculous but..Amis are very small minded. For them even the analog Clock is Science. Or just making Bread.

@Moritz___

Ай бұрын

wel for toddlers like 3-maybe 7 these things ARE very complex. how should you learn how chocolate is made? Just its versitality makes it very worth to watch. IMO very educational and very important to teach kids to question everything.

@m.h.6470

Ай бұрын

@@Moritz___ no question, it is definitely age dependent and VERY informative, even for "older kids" :P

@silkwesir1444

Ай бұрын

@@silviahannak3213 It still is science. Science is the method of figuring stuff out, regardless of whether it's easy or difficult. So, in a way, everyone does science every day of their life...

There are some curious german media traditions... like the "Dinner for One" show on each New Year's Eve. But "Die Sendung mit der Maus" is more... it IS German history. And in that regard - one of the most interesting multi-part series presented by the Maus (well, Armin, in that case) is the "Nachkriegszeit" videos. He tells the children of the early 2000s how his own childhood had been, living in the ruins of post-war Cologne. All episodes are available on KZread, in the "Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten".

I was 6 years old when Tschernobyl happened and I remember how hard it was for us kids to understand why we couldn't play outside for a while. The mouse managed to explain all this serious stuff in a way my 6-year old self could umderstand. To this day, in my head a nuclear chain reaction looks like table tennis balls thrown via mouse traps 😅

I grew up with the mouse on TV and even today, at the age of 58, I still enjoy watching the show because - in the explanatory films - you always see something interesting that you didn't know... How is a wooden cooking spoon made, how is built a car or an ICE-train. Something you wouldn't see otherwise. I love “Die Sendung mit der Maus”!

Ryan says: He is doing this or that. But it's nor He-Mouse neither She-Mouse, it's just The Mouse.

now he‘s one of us. he discovered that Germany is actually Not about octoberfest, cool Cars or late trains. Its about stuff like the Maus:)

The Maus has become German royalty😂 I mean 53 years on means 3/4 of the population was more less exposed to it in their childhood and growing up with it. Education for kids at its best. The Maus has relaxed eyes.. the Maus is content and at ease with everything.

When my daugther was young, one of the most precious time for me was, when we were watching the "Sendung mit der Maus" every sunday noon.

@nbarrio

16 сағат бұрын

Same. And I really miss it

5:20 The Maus is on the plane, because the they showed over 6 episodes how this very plane was manufactured at Airbus in Hamburg :)

The mouse is probably just as popular as the sandman who tells the little ones a story every night before they go to bed and then sends them virtual sand to help them fall asleep. :) Do you already know our sandman? :D

hier kommt die maus by stefan raab. there is a version with busta rhymes on youtube

You were so amazed at the combination of mouse and planes. A few years ago, the show with the mouse followed the production of an Airbus a321 in great detail and filmed everything. And there is still a large mouse painted on this Lufthansa aircraft today. You can find the picture of it on the Wikipedia page

Hallo Ryan. Now, I am 56 years old and the tv show with the mouse is a great remember of my childhood. Now you are mostly right. It is a tv show with short cartoon films from the mouse, the little blue elefant and the yellow duck that tried to understand the world. The little cartoons are made to show what is the reason from the film that comes later. Means the title of the science based film. Like the mouse and their friends trying to cook popcorn. But it goes wrong and they are looking sad in the camera. Than the film, no Cartoons a real film, begin. In this films the storyteller, with a warm and friendly voice that children love, show the science in verry easy words that children of each age can understand. And this is the reason why the mouse is so popular in Germany. Everybody knows this tv show and its easy way to tell how difficult things in our live works. And you see... I love this mouse for more than 50 years! Many greatings from Duisburg in Germany

The mouse has two friends, a tiny blue elephant and a yellow duck

And very important, when kids watch the mouse on tv, everyone watches along, olderkids, adulds, seniors, because everyone learns something new... That's why the average watching age is around 40. 😋

as an elder german i can say i watched the mouse for years in my younger days.... and damn it teached me so much :)

@Groffili

Ай бұрын

... taught ... ... but, yes, I don't think there is a single German alive who has not learned _something_ from the mouse.

@bendjohans3863

Ай бұрын

well...without the mouse i would not know how wooden pencils where made ;D

@bendjohans3863

Ай бұрын

most likely not how you imagine ;D;D

You need to watch a whole episode 😄 "Die Sendung mit der Maus" is childhood Sidenote: Why not read the German Wikipedia page and then translate into English? Works for me with English websites and the auto translate function.

I always watched die Sendung mit der Maus as a child, the good old times.

There is a Rick and Morty episode with a sequence that shows you how some alien product is made in every step of the production. That was the closest US tv has gotten to something like Die Sendung mit der Maus. The segments about how something is made or applied still hold a lot of educational value.

The Maus even has a song that is basically a long version of the intro. It is really fun and always reminds me of the time when I was in summer camp and all the kids tried to learn the lyrics, because our caretaker would play this song to gather all of us. You have to watch that!